Behrouz Boochani is one of hundreds of asylum seekers who’ve been turned away by Australia and detained for years on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. During his detention, the Iranian Kurdish writer wrote a book via text messages sent to a translator. The book won two big literary prizes in Australia.
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